John Hegley was born in North London to whose environs he has returned, after education in Luton, Bristol and Bradford University. He has for many years been involved in the creation of songs, poems, books, radio programmes, festival performances and cardboard animals. Formerly BBC on-line poet and poet in residence at Keats House, has been honoured with a doctorate from the University of Bedfordshire, was nominated for the Edinburgh Fringe Perrier Award and was described in the Independent as ‘awesomely mundane’.
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